Archive: Housing And Planning

Coalition steps in to prop up housing market

Just 10k deposit needed, ministers suggest, to buy first property

Ministers are promising their new housing scheme will allow 100,000 people to get on the property ladder to buy their 'dream home'.

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Default 'yes' for planning proposals under pressure

Presumption in favour of 'sustainable development', whatever that means

Contingency plans for the collapse of the euro should be talked about more openly to "soften the blow" to the British public, a leading eurosceptic has said.

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Comment: Tackling the problem of gyspy and traveller sites

Gavin Williamson is the Conservative MP for South Staffordshire

A lamentable record on regulating gypsy and traveller sites is only just being overturned. But it may be too late to assuage growing anger over the issue.

Labour loses housing benefit vote

Douglas Alexander led the debate for Labour

Labour has lost its challenge to housing benefit reforms by 61 votes following a fiery Commons debate.

Comment: Challenging the false debate on housing benefit

Leslie Morphy is chief executive of the homeless charity Crisis

The current row over the housing benefit cap is obscuring the real impact cuts will have on low income people across the country.

Revealed: Full extent of housing benefit cuts impact

Only green areas will remain affordable by 2016

Tens of thousands of householders could be forced from the centre of London as a result of planned housing benefit changes.

Analysis: Does 'cleansing' fit the bill?

Labour has warned poorest will suffer from housing benefit cut

Labour's 'cleansing' rhetoric may be controversial, but it is certainly powerful. Does it really stack up?

Govt unclear over social rent 'lottery'

Questions still unanswered for social housing

Housing experts are struggling to pin the government down over its plans to hike social housing rents to 80% of market value.

Government in disarray as housing benefit row continues

The cut would hit London hardest due to high rents in the capital

The increasingly bitter row over housing benefit reform hits the Commons today, just as it caused significant splits in the Tory party.

PMQs: Housing benefit tensions reach fever pitch

Ed Miliband tackled David Cameron on housing benefit in their third PMQs clash

Ed Miliband succeeded in heightening government division over plans to cap housing benefit today, in his third prime minister's questions as Labour leader.

Comment: The impending housing disaster

Nick Raynsford is Labour MP for Greenwich and Woolwich

The government's policy on housing will turn a fragile situation into a full-blown disaster.

PMQs clashes on housing benefit

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Shelter issues damning verdict on 'rogue landlords'

A significant number of private landlords are failing in their responsibilities, according to Shelter

Over 90% of environmental health officers (EHOs) have encountered private landlords who routinely harass or illegally evict their tenants, an investigation by the charity Shelter has claimed.

Review: Jilted Generation

Jilted Generation by Ed Howker and Shiv Malik, out September 2nd 2010

If you can't buy a house or get a job you're probably looking for someone to blame. This book could help you out - even if it won't solve all your problems.

Housing benefit 'myths' challenged

BSHF warns against short-term housing benefit cuts

Government ministers' belief that the housing benefits system is 'out of control' is unjustified, a housing research charity has claimed.

Referendums 'will tear villages apart'

A Yorkshire village. Campaigners say the rural ideal is threatened by social and economic change.

Village communities will be torn apart by referendums on local planning decisions, campaigners have said.

Comment: Housing reforms need cooperation to succeed

David Williams is an executive director of affordable housing provider Circle Anglia

The real crux of the problem is how we deliver enough new affordable homes to help those in desperate need of a new place to live.

Cash lure for home-building councils

Govt wants to encourage new homes construction

Local authorities will receive financial incentives for every new home they allow to be built, housing minister Grant Shapps has announced.

Social housing shake-up questioned

Lifetime security of tenure for social housing could be removed

Conservative MP Nadine Dorries became the latest government backbencher to question David Cameron's social housing plans yesterday.

Social housing shift splits coalition

A council house should no longer be for life, the prime minister said yesterday

David Cameron's aim of ending the 'council houses for life' principle has met with a frosty reception from the Liberal Democrats.

Govt plans house building referendums

Settling down: Many young people cannot afford to keep living where they grew up.

Local communities could hold local referendums on modest house-building projects under new plans being put forward by the housing minister.

IDS to shift 'immobile' long-term unemployed

Time to move on

The coalition government will make it easier for Britain's long-term unemployed to relocate to find work, Iain Duncan Smith has said.

Temporary immigration cap expected

Non-EU immigrants face Tory cap

A temporary limit on the number of migrant workers from outside the EU allowed into Britain is expected to be announced tomorrow.

Coalition to end 'garden grab' development

Clarke wants to save 'vital green space'

Gardens will no longer be classified as brownfield sites in a bid to stop developers taking them over, according to the government.

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